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    power plants waste
    Climate
    North America
    News
    April 25, 2024

    STATEMENT: U.S. EPA Issues Strong Pollution Standards for New and Existing Power Plants

    • power plants
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Clean Power
    • power plants
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Clean Power
    Climate
    Insights
    May 25, 2023

    4 Shifts Needed to Create a Carbon-free Power System

    • GHG emissions
    • Climate Equity
    • climate change
    • power plants
    • renewable energy
    Wind turbines and solar power panels
    • GHG emissions
    • Climate Equity
    • climate change
    • power plants
    • renewable energy
    Climate
    Asia North America
    Update
    January 6, 2023

    Recommendations for Collaboration Between the US and China on Methane Emissions

    • GHG emissions
    • agriculture
    • waste
    • mapping
    Tiered hill agriculture.
    • GHG emissions
    • agriculture
    • waste
    • mapping
    Business
    Africa
    Update
    November 29, 2022

    P4G’s Partnership of the Year Demonstrates the Power of Rural Electrification Through Hydro Plants

    • Business
    • Freshwater
    • power plants
    A river flows through Masai Mara Nature Reserve in Kenya
    • Business
    • Freshwater
    • power plants
    Food
    Insights
    March 7, 2022

    7 Opportunities to Reduce Emissions from Beef Production

    • GHG emissions
    • climatewatch-pinned
    Cows grazing a field at sundown with windmills in the background.
    • GHG emissions
    • climatewatch-pinned
    Climate
    Insights
    March 7, 2022

    6 Pressing Questions About Beef and Climate Change, Answered

    • Food
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • food security
    Six cows grazing in an open field.
    • Food
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • food security
    Food
    Update
    February 1, 2022

    Changes to Menu Messaging Can Increase Sales of Climate-friendly Food

    • Climate
    • Food
    Menu in restaurant
    • Climate
    • Food
    Freshwater
    Technical Perspectives
    December 9, 2021

    With Power Generation Vulnerable to Climate Impacts, Investors Must Understand Physical Risks

    • climate change
    • power plants
    • Aqueduct
    A power plant on a sea shore with smoke emerging from the towers.
    • climate change
    • power plants
    • Aqueduct
    Business
    Africa
    Insights
    December 2, 2021

    How a Partnership in Kenya Recycled 100,000 Kilograms of Fashion Waste

    • waste
    • circular economy
    Three recycling bins against a wall filled with garments to be recycled.
    • waste
    • circular economy
    Freshwater
    Asia
    Insights
    August 26, 2021

    How Water Challenges Threaten India’s Energy Security

    • water risk
    • renewable energy
    • power plants
    • drought
    • floods
    • Aqueduct
    Power plant in dry land
    • water risk
    • renewable energy
    • power plants
    • drought
    • floods
    • Aqueduct
    Cities
    Initiatives
    August 4, 2021

    Data Portal for Cities

    Aerial view of suburbs next to croplands
    Climate
    Insights
    May 25, 2021

    What Is Carbon Lock-in and How Can We Avoid It?

    • GHG emissions
    • fossil fuels
    • infrastructure
    • power plants
    • National Climate Action
    • COP26
    A power plant with wind mills and a smoke column in the center.
    • GHG emissions
    • fossil fuels
    • infrastructure
    • power plants
    • National Climate Action
    • COP26
    Food
    Insights
    April 20, 2021

    Youth Say They Want Climate-friendly Diets. Let’s Help Them Step Up

    • climate change
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    women in grocery store
    • climate change
    • Climate-Friendly Diets
    Equity & Governance
    Latin America Oceania North America Europe
    Insights
    April 6, 2021

    4 Ways to Reduce Plastic Pollution

    • Business
    • circular economy
    • coronavirus
    • waste
    • Ocean
    • pollution
    • regulation
    Plastic waits for recycling landfill in the Philippines.
    • Business
    • circular economy
    • coronavirus
    • waste
    • Ocean
    • pollution
    • regulation
    Business
    Insights
    August 6, 2020

    How to Build a Circular Economy

    • Economics
    • circular economy
    • waste
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • greenhouse gases
    • natural resources
    • Climate
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Two recycling facility workers next to bales of aluminum cans. Photo by Aaron Minnick | WRI.
    • Economics
    • circular economy
    • waste
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • greenhouse gases
    • natural resources
    • Climate
    • Food Loss and Waste

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